Posted on 08/09/2008 6:15:18 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Living in Europe in 1980, and having to listen to the European’s complaints about Reagan, it was really great to see that sea of blue sweep over the US. It was one of the great days of my life.
There is no doubt in my mind that the networks finally settled on Red for the GOP to take away the pink stain on the Rats..and now the outright nomination of a marxist.
Take a look at it. He has all the Bush states in blue and the dimwit states in red!
They didn’t use red for the Dems. They used red for the party out of office, and blue for the incumbent party. The deviation from custom came in 2004 once everyone started nattering about ‘Red States’ and ‘Blue States’.
Communism is a spent force. The PRC and Vietnam are fascist rather than Communist now; in North Korea ‘Juche’ is a bizarre form of oriental despotism and emperor-worship dressed up with Stalinist-style police, concentration camps and bad uniforms; Russia may not be democratic, but they have a market economy and Christian religious education in their schools.
Red is a fine color (just ask any Nebraska Cornhusker fan). We liberated it from the Commies when we won the Cold War. Besides it alliterates with Republican.
The acceptance of red by conservatives makes it unlikely it will ever change. I imagine most people don’t even think about ir or care, they just accept it.
Interesting in the rest of the world colors have long been associated with parties but here just since 2000.
I’m not sure the MSM picked Red for Republican just to dissociate the historic color of leftism from the rats, since many people aren’t even aware red=commie. There have been marketing studies showing people like blue better (Pepsi did this). That’s perhaps a simpler reason.
I wish it were reversed though to fit international political color meanings, history, Luke Skywalker versus Darth Vader parallels and those dave leip maps.
Better yet pick a really ugly color like greenish yellowish brownish grayish pet vomit for the rats. GOP gets all other colors.
IDEALLY the rats would get invisible.
The GOP should be Blue, and the Democrats Red (since they’re the leftist party). That’s the way it was traditionally, and that’s the way that Dave Leip’s presidential elections atlas has it. http://uselectionatlas.org/
This is a vanity thread a wrote a while back. Thought you’d be interested.
> This is a vanity thread a wrote a while back. Thought you’d be interested. <
An excellent post and a great discussion. Thanks!
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